H. Rose Schneider reports in The Altamont Enterprise that the 137-year-old White Sulphur Springs Hotel in East Berne in Albany County was torn down June 7. "As the building was demolished, a baby raccoon made its way to the side of the road where workers were supervising the destruction. The raccoon cried continuously, presumably for its mother, seen leaving earlier, and before disappearing," Schneider wrote. The hotel was built in 1880 by Jacob Hochstrasser, and closed in 1916. The United Pentecostal Church “Word of Life Ministries” owned the property in 1960, and then the current owner, Evangel Christian Church of Queens, bought it in 2005. Read the full story in The Altamont Enterprise.